Story+2007-10-10+East+Rutherford,+NJ

“New Jersey (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)...”
 * 10.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Radio Nowhere”**

“Hello, good evening, good evening (crowd cheers) welcome, welcome, welcome…to the fabulous East Rutherford (crowd cheers) oh, this is the title song of our record…sort of speaks to this Orwellian moment we live in where, uh…things that are true are made out to be lies and things that are lies are made out to be true so, uh…it´s not really about magic, it´s about tricks…”
 * 10.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Magic”**

“Good evening, everybody (crowd cheers) I´m so glad to be in the beautiful city of East Rutherford tonight (crowd cheers) I´m so glad to be home (crowd cheers) I wanna hear my homies! (crowd cheers) homies! (crowd cheers) oh yes…this is a song called “Livin´ In The Future” but it´s about what´s happening now...how recently along with all the beautiful things we love about America...the Jersey Shore (crowd cheers) Max´s Hot Dogs and the Windmill cheeseburgers (crowd cheers) the Bill of Rights (crowd cheers) it´s still just a little under those Max´s Hot Dogs, it´s not a good sign… the Constitution (crowd cheers) Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) only in America (chuckles)…how along with all the things that we love about the place we live, it´s been sad that we´ve had to add to the American picture words like “rendition” and “illegal wiretapping” and “(?) of civil liberties” and it´s sad that we´ve had to watch one of the most culturally important American cities get washed away before our eyes…while our leaders stood ham-fisted …so this is a song about things that shouldn´t be happening here but that are happening here…and so tonight we plan to do something about it (crowd cheers) we plan to sing about it…that´s a start…Max!...”
 * 10.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Livin´ In The Future” **

“Wait a minute, let´s try it, let´s try it (chuckles) we´re, uh, having a little debate society (chuckles) inside my head (chuckles)…ok, never before attempted (crowd cheers) better wait, better wait and see…everybody ready?...”
 * 10.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Your Own Worst Enemy”**

“It was close (chuckles)(?) it´s close…”
 * 10.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, after “Your Own Worst Enemy”**

“Hey Steve (?) another electric guitar…come on, Kid…you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you can look but you better not touch…”
 * 10.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “You Can Look”**

“Thank you so (crowd cheers) thank you for a great night in New Jersey (crowd cheers) oh yes…I wanna mention our friends from Table to Table, Table to Table picks up fresh leftover food from restaurants and markets and they deliver to struggling citizens in New Jersey…and also the Hackensack Riverkeeper, they´re with us tonight…they´re a leading environmental organization dedicated to keeping the swamps of Jersey right here clean and green (chuckles) (crowd cheers) gotta keep those…so on your way out please see those folks, please give them a hand…they´re out there on the frontlines doing good work…this is for all the girls! (crowd cheers)…”
 * 10.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”**

“This is for our good friend Lenny Kaye…”
 * 10.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Thundercrack”**

“I wanna thank everybody for coming to the show tonight and last night! (crowd cheers) thank you, New Jersey (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)… (…) Patti Scialfa (crowd cheers) Steve Van Zandt (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) the mighty Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Dan Federici (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) New Jersey! (crowd cheers) you´ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, earth-shocking, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, earth-quaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)…”
 * 10.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “American Land”**

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